Stephanie | July 30, 2010
Welcome to the SoulCollage® blog party where you can see what SoulCollagers have been assembling. Thanks, Kathryn Antyr at True North Arts for hosting! I had a great time putting my SoulCollage® cards together–some old, some new–and creating a story of Heartwork… Work of the eyes is done now. Go and do heartwork On all [...]
Stephanie | July 26, 2010
I created this shadow box — which was meant to be literally about an aspect of our own shadow; that part of ourselves that we don’t want to look at, let alone own — and I feel that in making it I have unlocked a fearful part of me that I have been struggling with [...]
Stephanie | July 4, 2010
I don’t know about you, but I have been feeling some strong energy shifts since the summer solstice on June 21, the full moon lunar eclipse on June 26, and the solar eclipse/new moon in Cancer that’s coming up on July 11. For me it’s stirred up creative energy and fiery passion to get things [...]
Stephanie | June 16, 2010
Saturday I had the privilege and joy of getting together with a group of soulful women and a wonderful spirit-filled teacher, storyteller, and outsider artist, Cher Shaffer, who guided us through the process of making what she calls “time cage dolls.” Our somewhat cryptic message from Cher in advance of the workshop was this: “Be [...]
Stephanie | June 6, 2010
…Have this wish I wish tonight. My book club group of fab femmes from Carrboro got together and made shrines after reading The Wishing Year, sub-titled “A House, A Man, My Soul,” a memoir by Noelle Oxenhandler. If you haven’t read it, it’s a great read and tres inspirant, even as the author grapples with [...]
Stephanie | April 19, 2010
I’m just resurfacing after a 5-day trip back to see my mother, who is 92 years old and suffering from dementia. She got pneumonia and was released home from the hospital the day I arrived in Oklahoma to see her. I went to visit her two years ago, thinking it might be the last time [...]
Stephanie | March 25, 2010
Now that spring is here, the time of birth and rebirth, it’s a good time to consider what new ideas, projects, aspects or changes we want to bring about. And as we ask that question, we may want to consider what do we want to throw out? What no longer serves us and needs to [...]
Stephanie | March 7, 2010
How do you feel about the word, crone? How you feel about it may determine how you live it. It’s important to develop a relationship with this stage of life and embrace it. For many of us crone conjures up an image of a hag, a witch, a bent-over, wizened old woman who spends most [...]
Stephanie | February 15, 2010
Lauri Maerov, my friend, writer, and co-facilitator for the Create Your Vision 2010 Playshop, and I were so pleased with the way we combined the process of making SoulCollage cards and vision boards that we are wanting to collaborate again in the future. (She will soon have a blog with her own creative visions and [...]
Stephanie | January 25, 2010
I wrote this soon after I came to North Carolina a year and a half ago and I am revisiting this theme with something that just happened to me this weekend. I took on a new contracting position as a therapist a couple of weeks ago and was asked to do some psychological assessments, which [...]
